Yang Jiechi

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BEIJING: National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon arrived here today as a Special Envoy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for talks with top Chinese leaders on a host of bilateral issues, including India's concerns over Beijing's plans to build two nuclear reactors for Pakistan. During the next two days, Menon is scheduled to meet Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao, foreign minister Yang Jiechi and influential state councillor Dai Bingguo, who is also the designated Chinese representative to discuss Sino-India border issue, officials here said.

NEW DELHI: China on Sunday gave a certificate of good behaviour to Pakistan for tackling rising militancy in the country. "Government of Pakistan has effective control over the situation," Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi was quoted as saying on Sunday. The minister was responding to a question on the impact of troubles in Pakistan on China's restive Xingjian region. Yang was addressing his annual press conference, which China uses as a diplomatic tool to convey a range of messages to countries across the world.

BEIJING: Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi on Sunday gave a health certificate to the Pakistan government and its ability to tackle rising militancy in that country. But he kept silent about India-China relations including the issue of World Bank financing of projects in Arunachal Pradesh . "Government of Pakistan has effective control over the situation," Yang said in reply to a question about the rising militancy in Pakistan and its possible effect across the border in the restive Xingjian region of western China.

BEIJING: China has told visiting Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi that it wants to avoid action like investing in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which might hamper the proposed India-Pakistan peace talks, according to an expert close to the Chinese foreign ministry. "China does not want to invest in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Chinese government knows Kashmir is a sensitive issue and a disputed area," Ma Jaili, senior researcher at the State-run Institute of Contemporary International Relations told TNN. China is conscious about India's sensitivities when it deals with Pakistan, he said.

The Cold War and a bipolar global system ended in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the liquidation of the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1991. The former Cold War system of international relations, however, has been replaced by a system of Cold Peace between competing powerful countries such as India and China or the US and China. The salient feature of the era of Cold Peace between powerful countries like India and China is that both have conflicting and competing areas of interest and, at the same time, both have clearly opted for a path of friendly or formal methods of resolving their bilateral disputes.

NEW DELHI: The Centre has cleared the week-long visit of the Dalai Lama to Arunachal Pradesh starting on November 8. Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu said he will receive the Dalai Lama, who is scheduled to visit the Tawang monastery. In a bid to dispel any lingering doubts about the visit, chairperson of the state-level reception committee T G Rinpoche said in Itanagar that the government has cleared the visit of the Dalai Lama on October 19 and that the MEA letter had reached the state the next day. "It is a purely religious visit and during his four-day stay at the Tawang monastery, the Dalai Lama will give sermons to his followers," Mr Rinpoche was quoted as saying.

NEW DELHI: China's aim of playing some kind of an "honest broker" between India and Pakistan did not end up as it had imagined. Although Pakistan welcomed Chinese special envoy He Yafei with open arms on Monday, India developed some last-minute hearing disability that prevented him from visiting Delhi. It left China with a mission incomplete, but a message from India that cannot be ignored. According to reports from Pakistan, the Chinese envoy met the top leadership in Islamabad and told them to "de-escalate" tensions with India.

NEW DELHI: China's unease with India acquiring the great power status in Asia was on display when it advocated a nuclear deal for Pakistan. Making out a case for an "equal treatment" for its ally Pakistan, China said it hoped NSG would "equally address the aspirations of all parties". A number of analysts have taken the phrase "of all parties" to mean a reference to its ally Pakistan. "It is also China's hope that NSG would equally address the aspirations of all parties for the peaceful use of nuclear power while adhering to the nuclear non-proliferation mechanism," said Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi.

NEW DELHI: The biggest surprise element for India in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) deliberations was the role played by China which at the last minute spoke out against granting a waiver to India. ( Watch ) After the NSG waiver, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan told reporters that India would take up the issue with China. For India the opportunity to express displeasure with Beijing's spoiler role in the NSG presents itself as early as Sunday when Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi touches down in India for an official visit.

BEIJING: Ahead of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit, China on Tuesday said the two countries do not see each other as a threat and sought a "fair, reasonable and acceptable" solution to the boundary issue. Describing as "important" Mukherjee's four-day visit to China beginning tomorrow, Beijing said both sides attach great importance to it and they would exchange views on a "series of issues," including the boundary row on which it said discussions had made "some progress" in recent years.